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sensitive /senˈsi-tiv/ adjective- Having power of sensation
- Feeling readily, acutely, or painfully
- Easily upset or offended
- Capable of receiving stimuli
- Reacting to outside influence
- Ready and delicate in reaction
- Sensitized
- Susceptible to the action of light (photography)
- Relating to, or depending on, sensation
- Stimulating much strong feeling or difference of opinion
- (of documents, etc) with secret or controversial contents
noun Someone who or that which is sensitive, or abnormally or excessively sensitive ORIGIN: ME, from OFr, from Med L sensitīvus senˈsitively adverb senˈsitiveness or sensitivˈity noun - Response to stimulation of the senses
- Heightened awareness of oneself and others within the context of personal and social relationships
- Abnormal responsiveness eg to an allergen
- Degree of responsiveness to electric current, or radio waves, or to light
- (of an instrument) readiness and delicacy in recording changes
sensitive flame noun A flame that rises or falls in response to sound sensitive plant noun - A plant, esp Mimosa pudica, that shows more than usual irritability when touched or shaken, by movements of leaves, etc
- A person who is easily upset
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